🇮🇳 India elections: What’s at stake? | Al Jazeera English

India, home to the world’s biggest election. 1.3 billion people, 900 million eligible voters. Voting lasts for more than a month and happens at more than a million polling stations. The scale of what’s happening is huge. But why does it matter? What’s at stake? And who might be the next leader of one of the most important nuclear powers in the world? India is a republic, that means everyone gets a vote. It has a parliament. That means the political party that wins the most seats, picks a prime minis